Jim Simmerman's books
of poetry include Home, from Dragon Gate in 1983, which was picked
by Raymond Carver as a Pushcart Writer's Choice selection, and Once
Out of Nature, from Galileo Press in 1989, which was featured in
the Best of the Small Presses Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany. He has
received poetry fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts,
the Fine Arts Work Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, and
the Bread Loaf and Port Townsend Writers' Conferences. He directs and
teaches in the creative writing program at Northern Arizona University.
[extracted from 1992 brochure]